To Constantly Bloom.
Growth
Patience and persistence are essential for nurturing creative growth, allowing ideas to flourish over time.
Flourish
Self-propelled encouragement fuels continuous progress, driving you to achieve your goals despite challenges.
To Constantly Bloom
I’ve been navigating the job market after intentionally shifting from corporate work back to freelancing and contracting. One of my favorite current clients is an author who needed help with formatting, illustrating, designing, and publishing her catalog of work via Amazon’s KDP platform and Ingram Spark. This experience has been incredibly rewarding, leading to my achievement as a published designer, artist, and author.
We’ve worked closely, conceptualizing and creating both generated and illustrated imagery for her early learning books, reflecting her perspective as a Haitian American mother and wife. We’ve explored various topics, from envisioning her legacy as a writer to improving readability and scaling techniques for a diverse audience. This project has highlighted how closely copy editing, book formatting, and illustration are tied to user design principles.
Here are five ways to stay consistent in user design when designing books as an artist and formatting expert:
- Understand Your Audience: Tailor the visuals and layout to the preferences and needs of your readers.
- Keep It Simple: A clean, uncluttered design enhances readability and user engagement.
- Consistency Is Key: Maintain consistent fonts, colors, and styles throughout to create a cohesive experience.
- Prioritize Usability: Ensure the design is intuitive and accessible, making it easy for users to navigate the content.
- Iterate Based on Feedback: Regularly seek feedback and be open to making changes to improve the overall user experience.
I invite you to visit KidsLoveAdventures.com, the website I designed for Author Extraordinaire : Marie Pierre, and explore her shop. You might find something you love, and your support helps both of us as artists while encouraging others to pursue their lifelong passions.
As we navigate new creative challenges and embrace projects like The Echo Chamber, may we always find growth and inspiration, blooming ever forward in our artistic journeys.
The Echo Chamber
Nadia Pricia ; 2024
Perspective
In the realm of UX design, accessibility serves as the cornerstone of inclusive and innovative design, embodying my ethos of creating designs that transcend barriers and resonate with diverse audiences. My passion for crafting usable products stems from a deep-seated desire to ensure that every individual, regardless of ability or background, can interact seamlessly with digital platforms. For me, intuitive design isn’t just a goal; it’s the driving force behind every project, guiding me to create experiences that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also intuitively navigable.
At the heart of my approach lies a commitment to meeting user needs—a momentum that propels me to continuously innovate and iterate. By empathizing with users and delving into their experiences, I gain insights that inform every aspect of the design process. Whether streamlining complex workflows or enhancing accessibility features for individuals with disabilities, my goal remains the same: to craft experiences that not only meet but exceed user expectations. With accessibility as a guiding principle, I aim to break down barriers and foster inclusivity in the digital landscape, ensuring that everyone can fully engage with and benefit from the products I design.
User-centric design requires empathy to understand the users’ needs deeply and creativity to translate those needs into intuitive solutions that enhance their experience. It’s about putting users at the forefront of every decision, ensuring that the design not only meets their expectations but also exceeds them, leaving a lasting positive impact.
Passport to Design
"been around the world, and I, I, I. "
Passport to Design
Since birth, I’ve been encouraged to be an artist. My mother groomed me towards expression and registered me for dance classes at Alvin Ailey , acting auditions for Life cereal and The Gap, and published a poem I wrote at about 4 years old. “I’m the sea, the sea is me.” Her support was unconditional and as often as I shifted through varied mediums, she followed along and invested fully.
This was my mother’s method to raising children, she raised us this way, with super self-belief, awareness and purpose. Driven by goals and motivated to be greater than the limitations of the world.
Inspired :
After Dark : Drake
You Gotta Be : Des’ree
Travellin' Man : Mos Def + DJ Honda
Sky Is The Limit : Biggie
Fruit Salad : Tierra Whack
Standing Ovation : Young Jeezy
Earthquake : Tyler the Creator
Read Between the Lines : Aaliyah
"movin through places, space + time"
Realizing that art through the digital lens , music engineering and handmade crafts were passions, I pursued several paths with full intensity. Music centric, I found a way to incorporate my interests, skill set and a lucrative path that was still true to my passions of creating.
And It all started with Myspace.
The initial content ranged from visual, graphic design and coding of course. Soft coding for glitter backdrops, invisible audio players, borders and of course fully themed pages for friends taught me about interacting with users and their needs.
The passport is issued.
I am now in a space where I can apply my varied skills to the art and technique of user centered design, with a focus on accessibility and functionality.
around the world.
Navigating through the different spaces and phases in UX/Web/Sound design and Visual art, I learned about myself as a young woman. I love creations that are growing, moving, transforming and evolving. These evolutions create inspiration and move thought.
Pursuing my audio career, I learned about the demand for internet presence and brand identity design. I started designing business cards, experimenting with album art design and other print media that benefitted my peers’ and I in the journey to solidifying professional presentation. Color theory was a prominent part of the puzzle, allowing me to create success for small business owners, commit service to my local community of entrepreneurs and learn about servers, domains and the tech side of maintaining websites.
Here is the fundamental beginning of my self discovery of expertise in the UX field. Via self-propelled research about app development, I learned about the importance of understanding user/client needs, executing deliverables such as sketching wireframes, user flows and personas, focused design features and (my favorite) product pitches. Through consumer facing builds to confidential corporate contracts (say that three times fast); I sharpened my wit and skill in the user interaction , user experience and user expectation (an insider) space.
And here I am, en route. Fully engaged in UI and music; listening to music around the clock as I detail rounded corners in Figma, navigate days filled with UX Google Meet sessions and music co-creation Zoom calls.
Image to the left: Mommy + Zoë after her first ballet recital.